# Creighton Hicks

> Creighton Hicks is a seed investor at LiveOak Ventures backing Software. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [LiveOak Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liveoak-venture-partners)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 58%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/creightonhicks

Creighton Hicks is a seed investor at LiveOak Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. Creighton Hicks is the Principal at LiveOak Venture Partners. Creighton previously worked at Intrigue, acquired by Mandiant as a Board Member. He attended Harvard Business School and The University of Texas at Austin.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 50% |
| Security | 2 | 17% |
| Analytics | 2 | 17% |
| Network Security | 2 | 17% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 58% |
| Series A | 2 | 17% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Eve Security | Eve Security identifies anomalies, assesses risk, clusters requests, interrogates AI agents and acts as a security analyst to take action. | $3M | Seed | Sep 16, 2025 |  |
| Spektion | Spektion recognized that software vulnerability management was essentially reactive and flawed founded | $5M | Seed | Apr 08, 2025 |  |
| DryRun Security | DryRun Security provides developers with a security context, acting as a security buddy to enhance application security testing. It was founded in 2022 by James Wickett and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, United States. | $8.7M | Seed | Jan 22, 2025 |  |
| Fastn | Fastn is a gene AI-powered design platform that automates up to 80% of the manual work involved in managing composable architecture. | $2.6M | Seed | Sep 05, 2024 |  |
| Keep Aware | Keep Aware’s human-centric solution is a proactive and flexible approach to browser security that takes into account the unique behavior patterns of individual users and groups and adapts to new threats over time. | $2.4M | Seed | Jun 06, 2023 |  |
| Intrigue Corporation | Intrigue offers the industry’s most comprehensive view of an enterprise’s attack surface. It is the only Attack Surface Management solution that fully enables organizations to map their assets, monitor their environment, and mitigate ongoing risk. | $2M | Seed | Apr 13, 2021 |  |
| Datometry | Datometry is empowering global enterprises to gain competitive advantage by up-leveling their data management to become cloud-native quickly and effectively. With the company’s suite of SaaS solutions, enterprises can replatform existing data warehouses to the cloud at up to 80% savings of replatforming time, cost, and risk, and withoutapplication rewrite. Powered by Datometry Adaptive Data Virtualization™ technology, the company’s SaaS offerings include: Datometry Hyper-Q™, the flagship product enabling replatforming of existing applications on any cloud database in real-time; Datometry qInsight™, the only product in the market to provide unprecedented insights into data warehouse workloads; and, Datometry qShift™ automating the generation of optimized destination data warehouse schema. | $17M | Series B | Feb 13, 2020 |  |
| CloudKnox Security | CloudKnox (2020 Gartner Cool Vendor for IAM) has built a multi-cloud permissions management platform that protects critical cloud infrastructure resources and identities by providing comprehensive visibility and enabling continuous, automated management of permissions (granted versus used) using patented Activity-Based Authorization technology.This platform continuously monitors, detects, and remediates over-permissioned machine and human identities across cloud infrastructure. | $12M | Series A | Jan 23, 2020 |  |
| FullStory | FullStory is a customer experience data app that captures customer experience data in one powerful and easy-to-use platform. Its tiny script unlocks pixel-perfect session playback, automatic insights, funnel analytics, and robust search and segmentation empowering everyone in an organization to help build the best online experience for customers.The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. | $32M | Series C | Apr 24, 2019 |  |
| CloudKnox Security | CloudKnox (2020 Gartner Cool Vendor for IAM) has built a multi-cloud permissions management platform that protects critical cloud infrastructure resources and identities by providing comprehensive visibility and enabling continuous, automated management of permissions (granted versus used) using patented Activity-Based Authorization technology.This platform continuously monitors, detects, and remediates over-permissioned machine and human identities across cloud infrastructure. | $10.8M |  | Oct 03, 2018 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Acorn Pacific Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acornpacific-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ClearSky](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clear-sky) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Redline Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redline-capital-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tau Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tau-ventures-e0e2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alchemist Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alchemist-accelerator) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About LiveOak Ventures

VC Fund · Austin, United States

Liveoak Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on technology and technology-driven services in Texas. LiveOak is a full lifecycle investor, with most of its relationships beginning at the seed stage.

5 contacts available at LiveOak Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Krishna Srinivasan | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/krishna-srinivasan-3 |
| Paola Retes | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paola-retes |
| Ram Velidi | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ram-velidi |
| Venu Shamapant | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venu-shamapant |
| Creighton Hicks | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creighton-hicks |

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## FAQ

### What does Creighton Hicks invest in?

Creighton Hicks invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Security startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Creighton Hicks?

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### When did Creighton Hicks last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Creighton Hicks closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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